Vitamin E: the shrew waiting to be tamed

R Brigelius-Flohé - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
Vitamin E is the last of all vitamins whose essentiality is not yet understood. Its widely
accepted role as a lipophilic antioxidant has been questioned, since proof of its in vivo …

Vitamin E: Emerging aspects and new directions

F Galli, A Azzi, M Birringer, JM Cook-Mills… - Free Radical Biology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The discovery of vitamin E will have its 100th anniversary in 2022, but we still have more
questions than answers regarding the biological functions and the essentiality of vitamin E …

Vitamin E: an overview of major research directions

JM Zingg - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
During the last 90 years since the discovery of vitamin E, research has focused on different
properties of this molecule, the focus often depending on the specific techniques and …

Vitamin E in aging, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease

YB Joshi, D Praticò - Biofactors, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Since its discovery, vitamin E has been extensively researched by a large number of
investigators in an attempt to fully understand its role in a variety of pathophysiological …

Vitamin E: regulatory redox interactions

T Miyazawa, GC Burdeos, M Itaya, K Nakagawa… - IUBMB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vitamin E is an essential nutrient that was discovered in the 1920s. Many of the
physiological functions of vitamin E, including its antioxidative effects, have been studied for …

Vitamin E and metabolic health: Relevance of interactions with other micronutrients

S Liao, SO Omage, L Börmel, S Kluge, M Schubert… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
A hundred years have passed since vitamin E was identified as an essential micronutrient
for mammals. Since then, many biological functions of vitamin E have been unraveled in …

Vitamin E: action, metabolism and perspectives

E Herrera, C Barbas - Journal of physiology and biochemistry, 2001 - Springer
Natural vitamin E includes four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. RRR-α-tocopherol is the
most abundant form in nature and has the highest biological activity. Although vitamin E is …

Vitamin E beyond its antioxidant label

A Ungurianu, A Zanfirescu, G Nițulescu, D Margină - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vitamin E, comprising tocopherols and tocotrienols, is mainly known as an antioxidant. The
aim of this review is to summarize the molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways linked …

Vitamin E: Mechanism of transport and regulation in the CNS

P Lee, LM Ulatowski - IUBMB life, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although vitamin E has been recognized as a critical micronutrient to neuronal health for
more than half a century, vitamin E transport and regulation in the brain remain a mystery …

Vitamin A and vitamin E: will the real antioxidant please stand up?

WS Blaner, IO Shmarakov… - Annual review of nutrition, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Vitamin A, acting through its metabolite, all-trans-retinoic acid, is a potent transcriptional
regulator affecting expression levels of hundreds of genes through retinoic acid response …